Sunday, November 29, 2015

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 30/11/2015





Sony Might Have Unlocked The PS4's 7th CPU Core
So how much more powerful does this make the PS4 versus the Xbox One now?

Sony did not release any official announcement about this, and the SDK itself is under NDA, so we should consider this as rumor, and take it with the traditional pinch of salt until an announcement is made. That said, it's certainly promising.


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Ridley Scott: "Alien: Covenant" First Of Three Films, Will Link Into Original "Alien"
Are you still interested in the origins of the Xenomorph, or do you think Ridley should have left it all alone?

Alien: Covenant and the following two films will be origin stories, answering the "very basic questions posed in Alien: why the alien, who might have made it and where did it come from?" Scott revealed at a press conference in Sydney where he is starting pre-production on Covenant, the first sequel to Prometheus.

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Microsoft's New Development Workflow Begins To Show Cracks
Perhaps this is why many have complained of Windows 10 feeling so beta and not fully finished.

Prior to his implementation of a streamlined operation to help ship code faster, there was roughly a one-to-one relationship between developers and those who test the code for stability and bugs. After the layoffs, which gutted a significant portion of the employees who were in the testing group, management pushed down the idea that developers should be fully responsible for their own code. This, in itself, is not a crazy idea, but the transition to this methodology is starting to show its weakness in the products that Microsoft has been shipping since the release of Windows 10.


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"World's Sexiest Robot" Causes Frenzy At Tech Conference
It looks like a dude wearing a women's wig to me, but whatever floats your boat...

The World Robot Conference in Beijing was reportedly taken by storm this week when the latest iteration of Geminoid F – an almost terrifyingly-realistic robot woman – made an appearance during the show. Known to many as "the world's sexiest robot," the rubber-skinned android can speak, sing, and even act according to China's state-run news service.

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Pirate Told To Get 200K YouTube Hits Or Face Huge Fine
As the alternative to paying a hefty fine, this guy was asked to make an anti-piracy PSA video that got 200K views. So far, he's at over 750K.



…the BSA say that the 30-year-old's fate lies with how popular the video becomes. Unless the video gets 200,000 views on YouTube, there's a suggestion that a huge fine will become payable. "If I promote my story and my video gets at least 200 thousand views, I will only serve the general part of my sentence," Jakub explains.

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Cards Against Humanity Makes Over $54K Selling Nothing On Black Friday
I wonder how many people managed to miss the disclaimer and thought they were getting something.

Why would people pay Cards Against Humanity $5 for absolutely nothing? I assume that most know it's a joke and feel like the bucks are simply a tip. Maybe for the smile they got from the company or because they've long enjoyed their products.


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Apple May Replace 3.5mm Headphone Jack With Lightning Connector For iPhone 7
Apple thinks it's okay to get rid of a connector standard and make you pay for an adapter just to use your wired headphones.

The report, citing a "reliable source," claims the new same-sized Lightning connector will support Lightning-equipped and Bluetooth headphones, and have a DAC, or digital-to-audio converter, for backwards compatibility with wired headphones using standard 3.5mm stereo jacks. A 3.5mm to Lightning adapter would be required.

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Price Cuts On AMD And Nvidia GPUs
Now might be the time to upgrade to that Nvidia or AMD GPU you've had your eye on.

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LG Display To Invest $8.7 Billion In OLED
Let's hope this move will push down the prices of OLED TVs further.

The company said it will spend an initial 1.84 trillion won to begin building the plant, called P10, in Paju, South Korea, to make panels across all product segments including large screens for TVs and flexible OLED panels for devices such as smartwatches and auto displays. Production is expected to begin in the first half of 2018.

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IP Leak Affecting VPN Providers With Port Forwarding
Those who use VPNs at any capacity might want to check in with their providers to see if this affects them.

We have tested this with nine prominent VPN providers that offer port forwarding. Five of those were vulnerable to the attack and have been notified in advance so they could fix this issue before publication. However, other VPN providers may be vulnerable to this attack as we could not possibly test all existing VPN providers.

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VTech Hack Exposes Data On Hundreds Of Thousands Of Kids
In what may be the "fourth largest consumer data breach to date," the toys and gadgets company had its database accessed via SQL injection, which includes the identities of many children.

The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who have bought products sold by VTech, which has almost $2 billion in revenue. The dump also includes the first names, genders and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids. What's worse, it's possible to link the children to their parents, exposing the kids' full identities and where they live, according to an expert who reviewed the breach for Motherboard.

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Samsung Starts Mass Producing 128-Gigabyte DDR4 RAM Chips
I figure this should greatly reduce the number of sticks computing centers will need to order and install.

The 128GB TSV DDR4 RDIMM is comprised of a total of 144 DDR4 chips, arranged into 36 4GB DRAM packages, each containing four 20-nanometer (nm)-based 8-gigabit (Gb) chips assembled with cutting-edge TSV packaging technology.


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Raspberry Pi Zero: The $5 Computer, Already Sold Out
I was going to buy one just to put on my desk, but apparently they're all gone.



The original Raspberry Pi Model B and its successors put a programmable computer within reach of anyone with $20-35 to spend. Since 2012, millions of people have used a Raspberry Pi to get their first experience of programming, but we still meet people for whom cost remains a barrier to entry. At the start of this year, we began work on an even cheaper Raspberry Pi to help these people take the plunge.

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PS4 Remote Play Coming To PC
Mr. Yoshida has tweeted that you'll be able to stream and play PS4 games on your PC soon. Xbox One had this since July, so I'm surprised it took Sony this long to introduce this.

Some people asked if we plan to provide Remote Play function to PC, and yes, we are indeed working on an official application for PC/Mac.


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